Serge Poliakoff, Composition in Black, Red, Blue, Yellow and White, 1951, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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Serge Poliakoff, of Russian origin and naturalized French in 1962, arrived in Paris in 1923 and played in guitar cabarets. … Read more Serge Poliakoff, of Russian origin and naturalized French in 1962, arrived in Paris in 1923 and played in guitar cabarets. In 1929 he enrolled at the Grande Chaumière academy with works that remained academic until his discovery of abstract art in London where he stayed from 1935 to 1937. He became friends on his return with Sonia Delaunay, Kandinsky, Coulon. He is quickly considered one of the most powerful painters of his generation. In 1947 he was taken by Jean Deyrolle to Vaucluse in Gordes with, among others, Victor Vasarely! At the beginning of 1950 he settled near Saint-Germain-des-Prés and it was in 1962 that an entire room was reserved for him for the Venice Biennale. His works appear in most European and New York museums. This painting is a small format oil on canvas (49 x 36 cm) compared to the majority of Poliakoff's creations, the price is therefore accordingly This piece has an attribution mark,
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